Economy mainly based on fishing, fur-trade, and ship building
Location of Shays’ Rebellion in 1786
I did not serve in the Constitutional Convention. However, I did serve in the state convention and voted against the Constitution. It lays any taxes and duties, and when the people turn to smuggling what will happen? They will put it on the land and take the property of the farmers. They also insist on keeping a standing army in time of peace, when a call on the state militia will serve. George Clinton – ·Major contributor to Antifederalist Papers ·Argued the U.S. was too large to be kept stable under one government Robert Yates – ·Wrote many popular arguments using pseudonym “Brutus” ·Believed a standing army was dangerous, and anything lessening the sovereignty of the states, such as tariffs, was wrong Samuel Bryan – ·Author of several antifederalist papers under name of “Centinel” ·Argued for a bill of rights and that the government would be too powerful and take away the sovereignty of the states I am a successful farmer and owner of a gristmill. I have also served as justice of the peace, on the colonial general court, and in the state legislature in 1775.
Antifederalist
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Occupation
I did not serve in the Constitutional Convention. However, I did serve in the state convention and voted against the Constitution. It lays any taxes and duties, and when the people turn to smuggling what will happen? They will put it on the land and take the property of the farmers. They also insist on keeping a standing army in time of peace, when a call on the state militia will serve.
George Clinton –
· Major contributor to Antifederalist Papers
· Argued the U.S. was too large to be kept stable under one government
Robert Yates –
· Wrote many popular arguments using pseudonym “Brutus”
· Believed a standing army was dangerous, and anything lessening the sovereignty of the states, such as tariffs, was wrong
Samuel Bryan –
· Author of several antifederalist papers under name of “Centinel”
· Argued for a bill of rights and that the government would be too powerful and take away the sovereignty of the states
I am a successful farmer and owner of a gristmill. I have also served as justice of the peace, on the colonial general court, and in the state legislature in 1775.
No formal schooling.
1. "Anti-Federalist Writings." infoplease. 19 September 2009.
http://www.infoplease.com/t/hist/antifederalist/
2. Nash, Gary B. "Ordinary Americans and the Constitution." History Now.
19 September 2009. http://www.historynow.org/09_2007/historian4.html
3. Wakelyn, Jon L. Birth of the Bill of Rights: Major Writings. United States of America. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. 2007